Michael Coslo wrote:
Owen Duffy wrote:

Ah, but that rental cost is something. I'd be looking at hundreds of
dollars each time I do it. Thousands if I hire someone.

That 40 dollars I spent for the electric chansaw is cheap by comparison.
And very very quick. Yeah, it ruins the chainsaw blade and bar. At 40
dollars, I consider the whole thing disposable. I could buy a lot of
them for the price of renting the trencher.



The small trenchers rent for $35/hr in my area (4" wide x 24" deep).
There's a 2 hour minimum. You can dig a LOT of trenches in really hard
soil with lots of rocks in 2 hours. I also found out you could have
them deliver the thing and pick it up for $80 (which is a lot of money
if you happen to have a vehicle that can tow a small trailer, but if all
you have is a compact car, it's a lot cheaper than renting a truck)

In any case, not hundreds of dollars.

Jim Lux wrote in
:

In any case, not hundreds of dollars.

Some times. Some rental stores want you to have it the whole day, or in my
area, you have to have it back by noon Saturday when they close, or you get
to rent it the whole weekend.

Regardless, it's still a lot more expensive.

- 73 de Mike N3LI -